{"id":254157,"date":"2026-05-24T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T09:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/to-a-i-executives-were-all-just-meat-computers\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T11:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T15:25:13","slug":"to-a-i-executives-were-all-just-meat-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/to-a-i-executives-were-all-just-meat-computers\/","title":{"rendered":"To A.I. Executives, We\u2019re All Just \u2018Meat Computers\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

To A.I. Executives, We\u2019re All Just \u2018Meat Computers\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/24\/business\/meat-computer-brain-artificial-intelligence.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-24 05:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.nytimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

The relationship between mind and machine has long fascinated philosophers and scientists, who have likened the human brain to clocks, chronometers and, in more recent decades, computers. In the early days of artificial intelligence, academics referred cheekily to humans as \u201cmeat machines.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lately this framing has trickled into the vernacular of tech executives. Elon Musk posted on social media last summer, \u201cWe are all dumb meat computers compared to digital superintelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Andrej Karpathy, an A.I. executive and a founder of OpenAI, wrote in a widely read post that \u201cA.I. research used to be done by meat computers in between eating, sleeping, having other fun, and synchronizing once in a while using sound wave interconnect in the ritual of \u2018group meeting.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cThat era is long gone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Larry Ellison, a co-founder and the executive chairman of Oracle, said in a 2025 event: \u201cThe brain is very specialized. So are the A.I. models. But we\u2019re not building a 20-watt meat computer. We\u2019re building a 1.2 billion-watt A.I. brain.\u201d<\/p>\n

How it\u2019s pronounced<\/p>\n